An FGPA Based General Purpose DAQ Module for the KLOE-2 Experiment

Author

Branchini, P. ; Budano, A. ; Balla, A. ; Beretta, M. ; Ciambrone, P. ; De Lucia, E.

Author_Institution

Sezione di Roma 3, INFN, Rome, Italy

Volume

58

Issue

4

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1544

Lastpage

1546

Abstract

A general purpose FPGA based DAQ module has been developed. This module has been built around a Virtex-4 FPGA and it is able to acquire up to 1024 different channels distributed over 10 slave cards. The module has an optical interface, a RS-232 port, a USB and a Gigabit Interface. The KLOE-2 experiment is going to use this module to acquire data from the Inner tracker. An embedded processor (Power PC) is present on the FPGA and a telnet server has been developed and installed. A new general purpose data taking system has been based on this new module to acquire the Inner Tracker. The system is presently working at LNF (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati).

Keywords

data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; particle calorimetry; position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; scintillation counters; DAQ module; Gigabit Interface; KLOE-2 experiment; Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati; RS-232 port; Virtex-4 FPGA; data acquisition system; data taking system; inner tracker; optical interface; slave cards; telnet server; Buildings; Data acquisition; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical fiber communication; Physics; Servers; Data acquisition; GEM; trigger;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2011.2158609

Filename

5945001